Staff Software Engineer, Color
DevOps & Platform
$195-250k
3 days a week in office (Burlingame, CA)
Data-driven platform for population healthcare
Be an early applicant
Data-driven platform for population healthcare
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-250k
3 days a week in office (Burlingame, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide a data-driven approach to helping everybody lead their healthiest lives possible.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, with 2+ years in a staff or lead role
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes & EKS, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native architecture
- Strong experience with AWS services, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and databases
- Production experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD
- Solid foundation in Linux systems, container orchestration, and networking
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and on-call practices for high-availability systems
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset—able to align platform vision with engineering and business needs
Desirable
- Experience in a regulated industry like healthcare or fintech
- Exposure to data infrastructure and pipelines (e.g., BigQuery, dbt, Airflow)
- Experience with Nextflow, bioinformatics, or scientific computing environments
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the evolution of our platform and developer experience. You’ll own and advance our AWS & Kubernetes-based infrastructure, enable world-class CI/CD, and partner with software, security, and bioinformatics teams to ensure we scale with confidence and speed. This is a unique opportunity to build infrastructure that supports real clinical care in a collaborative engineering culture that is revolutionizing cancer care
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our cloud-native infrastructure on AWS leveraging EKS, S3, IAM and more
- Improve and scale CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD
- Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and own infra observability using DataDog & Honeycomb
- Develop internal tooling and platform capabilities to accelerate engineering productivity
- Mentor and guide engineers to ensure application and infrastructure needs are tightly aligned
- Serve as technical lead for infrastructure projects and help shape long-term platform strategy
- Manage and tune our database infrastructure as application and business needs evolve
- Partner with security and compliance to meet HITRUST, SOC 2, and HIPAA standards
Our take
The genetic testing market is hugely promising, with an annual growth rate of over 10%, it’s expected to grow to a $21 billion industry by 2027. Color’s main offering is genetic testing, an increasingly popular preventative healthcare strategy which informs patients about inherited health risks, and puts them in contact with counselors to work on a response plan.
There are plenty of prominent actors in the marketplace, with 23andMe the most well known. However, Color stands out from its competitors by not working in the direct-to-consumer market, but by partnering up with employers, unions and governments to provide population-wide insights. The company’s client list is impressive, including the National Institutes of Health and the State of California, as well as Salesforce, Levis and Visa.
Thanks to a near $170 million series D funding round at the beginning of 2021, the company’s value hit “unicorn” status as it surpassed $1.5 billion. The company’s future growth will be interesting to watch, with the company announcing a new behavioural healthcare solution in October 2022 alongside the acquisition of mental health platform Mood Lifters. In 2024, Color began working with OpenAI on early detection tools for cancer. These developments are in line with Color's aim to build a wider infrastructure for a tech-based public health approach and indicate a push for a future IPO.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES E
Jan 2021
$167m
SERIES D
Total funding: $482m
Company benefits
- 💰 Competitive salary
- ✨ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- 📈 401k match
- 📝 Monthly phone and wifi stipend for employees
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy, paid holidays and company-wide recharge days
- 🍼 Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- 🧬 Four complimentary clinical-grade genetic testing kits for you and your family
Company HQ
Ingold - Milldale, Burlingame, CA
Leadership
Othman Laraki
(CEO & Co-Founder)After an MBA at MIT, they worked at Google as a Product Manager for almost 4 years, prior to co-founding Mixer Labs and working at Twitter and Pinterest. They left this Board role at ESI Group in 2012 to co-found Color in March 2013.
Elad Gil
(Board Member & Co-Founder)They hold a Ph.D. from MIT and has degrees in mathematics and biology from UCSD. Former Product Manager for Google Mobile Maps and was VP at Twitter before co-founding Color.
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